Jeremy Corbyn has given his reason for waiting five days to visit flood-hit areas of Britain

Labour
leader Jeremy Corbyn and local MP Rachael Maskell lift sandbags
after flooding in York on December 31, 2015.Nigel Roddis/Getty Images

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn spent New Year's Eve inspecting the
damage from
heavy flooding in the North of England. While Prime Minister
David Cameron first visited the flood-hit region on Monday,
Corbyn had an interesting reason for waiting five days from when
the flooding began to make his visit: he didn't want to get in
the way.

After meeting with staff from the Environment Agency at the Foss
Barrier in North Yorkshire, which was overwhelmed by the
flooding, Corbyn told reporters that if he had come earlier he
might have distracted the engineers.

He said: "I don't want to get in the way of people doing an
emergency job at a highly critical time. I think to turn up in
the midst of all that is distracting to engineers."